It is a kind of person model of extreme finesse, with a lot of elegance and gentleness that can border on the ridiculous, generally this class of people have vast knowledge in areas such as fashion and manners, it is common for them to belong to the class social bourgeois, generally these people have a deeply rooted personality demonstrating values such as moderation. It can be said then that a dandy is a true gentleman who can be a bit extreme.
At the end of the 18th century, a cultural movement emerged in English society deeply rooted in this type of people, which was called “dandyism”. This movement became an icon in terms of men's fashion at that time, in addition to the customs and values for the male members of this society, which, due to the constant wars caused by the different revolutions of the time, was quite agitated. This movement with the passage of timeIt was expanding outside the borders of England thanks to the emigrants from that nation, it had great relevance during the seventeenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in many cases being opposed to other cultural currents such as romanticism. According to experts, dandyism was the precursor of what today is men's fashion, in addition to influencing some personality stereotypes such as celebrities, the urban tribe and image rights.
Historians argue if dandies really existed, there are those who affirm that they did and that their extinction began with the arrival of the wars specifically that of the French empire against Prussia and the First World War. On the other hand, there are those who claim that this stereotype had a resurgence in our times, with a slight change in how they are called, since there are those who think that certain celebrities can be classified as dandies, an example of said individual is the famous ex footballer David Beckham, although there are those who claim that they are only similarities to the true dandies, since the triumph is not part of them.
